Post by jeffp1717 on Jan 9, 2013 11:58:38 GMT -5

Following last year's breakthrough Open Your Heart, Brooklyn group the Men have announced a new album, New Moon, to be released March 5 via Sacred Bones. They've also shared the record's first single, "Electric", streaming below. It's out January 22 on 7" vinyl backed by the non-album track "Water Babies".

New Moon was recorded last year in the upstate New York village of Big Indian, in the Catskill Mountains. According to press materials, they chose the location for "its technical limitations, 32-hour orbit and predisposal to celestial intervention," producing their "most intensely personal" record yet.

As followers of Sacred Bones may notice, the album cover (above) marks a rare break with the label's five-year-old cover art template.

The band has also announced a bunch of dates in Europe and the U.S. for this spring, after a run through Australia and New Zealand. See below.

"Electric":

New Moon:

01 Open the Door02 Half Angel Half Light03 Without a Face04 The Seeds05 I Saw Her Face06 High and Lonesome07 The Brass08 Electric09 I See No One10 Birdsong11 Freaky12 Supermoon

Post by garageland on Jan 10, 2013 14:14:44 GMT -5

It's a bit more inline with what Ecstatic Peace was becoming. I love the solo stuff he's been doing. I've only heard 3 tracks off the CLM album and I'm super stoked on that. And then the black metal super-group...

Post by problem dog on Jan 24, 2013 13:25:36 GMT -5

So, about that Foxygen album. I enjoy all of their reference points, I just don't think they ever rise above the level of solid pastiche. The vocals approximate what made Jagger and Bowie so compelling in their primes, but he doesn't sell the soul. It strikes me as hollow.

It probably hurts that I saw them live before I heard the album. It was awful. The lead singer vamped around doing the most shameless Jagger imitation I've ever seen, and there were little tantrums and outbursts that seemed totally scripted. They are an incredibly tight band that does a good imitation of spontaneity. I'd probably just shrug them off as mediocre if I had only heard the album, but the live show rubbed me way wrong.